Kim Young Bin

KIM Young-bin’s works are largely hard-boiled action movies with male characters. His debut film, (1992) starred [YU In-chon], who later became [Minister of Culture, Sports & Tourism]. The film is based on a true story of a Korean Japanese who wages a crime spree of killing and kidnapping after years…

Uno Koji

He was born on April 21 , 1924 in Fukuoka Prefecture Omuta born in Fukuoka Prefectural Miike Junior High School (now Fukuoka Prefectural Miike high school), 1944 (Showa 19) he graduated from the Japan film school. In the same year, he was dispatched to the acting section of Toho Photo Studio. After…

Ikehiro Kazuo

One of Daiei’s most flamboyant directors of chanbara, Ikehiro served as assistant to such luminaries as Kōzaburō Yoshimura, Kenji Mizoguchi, Kon Ichikawa, and Kaneto Shindō before making his debut with TheRoseDaimyo (Baradaimyō, 1960). His third film, the Shin Hasegawa adaptation TokijiroofKu­tsukake…

Takada Kokichi

Takada Kokichi is a Japanese actor and singer born in Sonoda Village, Kawabe District, Hyogo Prefecture. His real name is Kajiura Takeichi. He is a historical drama star representing Shochiku before the war, and is known as the first "Singing Movie Star". His second daughter is actress Takada Miwa,…

Kobayashi Shigeo

Shigeo Kobayashi is a Japanese actor. Born and raised in Tokyo, Kobayashi worked on over 80 films, theatrical productions and TV drama series. In 2008, he played the leading role in a short film "Todai (the Light House)" a part of Otokotachi no Uta. His most recent work includes the role of a Japanese…

Gosha Hideo

Gosha Hideo was a Japanese film director born in Arasaka, Tokyo Prefecture, Japan. He graduated from high school and served in the Imperial Navy during the Second World War. After earning a business degree at Meiji University, he joined Nippon Television as a reporter in 1953. In 1957, he moved on to…

Brian Tee

Jae-bum Takata, known professionally as Brian Tee, is a Japanese-American actor. Tee was born in Okinawa, to a Korean-American father and Japanese mother. At the age of two, he moved to Hacienda Heights, California, and was raised in Southern California. He attended Glen A. Wilson High School where…

Beat Takeshi

Takeshi Kitano is a Japanese comedian, television personality, director, actor, author, and screenwriter. While he is known primarily as a comedian and TV host in his native Japan, abroad he is known almost entirely for his filmwork. With the exception of his works as a film director, he is known almost…

Minami Toshiaki

Minami Toshiaki was a Japanese comedy actor from Yokosuka, Kanagawa, Japan. He was raised in Nagoya, Aichi.

Hasegawa Hiroshi

Welcome to Japan

Japan hosts an East Asian international tournament in 2020. Many thuggish personalities are traveling to Japan for the event. Kicking into action is a woman who was raised by the Yakuza and has become an assassin.…

Wolves

A war between those who protect, and those who take away Brutal and bloody violence of the yakuza and the Koryo mafia Women who feed the wolves Detectives and gangs chasing serial killers Hard-boiled action stained…

Erica: Blue Flame

Extreme suspense against the backdrop of a blue coral island! Erica is a dangerous woman who murders the boss of a yakuza and escapes. She becomes the target of the yakuza and is driven into an endless crisis of death…

Hitman Lawyer

Lawyer Shindo Kai is an undefeated ace, also working as a hitman who punishes criminals exploiting legal loopholes. While secretly serving justice, he hides his true identity as the illegitimate son of Gondo Heihachiro,…

A World without Mercy

>> Story 1: "Kiss me at dead of night" A story about a man and a woman who cause an irreversible situation at a family restaurant in the middle of the night. >> Story 2: "Imitation Yakuza" A tale of an unknown actor…

Satsutaba to Onsen

On a high school trip to a hot spring resort, a group of high school girls discover a bag full of wads of cash that a yakuza mistress has absconded with. The total amount is $200K! A hitman appears to recover the money,…

Tamura Yuto: Isolated

Someone has kidnapped Renji Himuro, the second-in-command of the Kyowakai, the largest yakuza group in Japan. Thinking that the kidnappers must be Chinese mafia, Yuto Tamura ventures into the enemy’s hideout alone…

Kasuriko

Goichi is penniless due to gambling and has to relinquish his own shop which customers regarded as being #1 in Kochi. While unsure of what to do, he meets yakuza and is referred for a job as a Kasuriko at the gambling…

Homie Kei: Chika no Natta Nihonjin

The documentary follows Kei, a Japanese man who, after leading a turbulent life as a yakuza, was imprisoned in the United States. There, he came into contact with Chicano gangs and was notably inducted into one, a…

Nihon Toitsu: Tokyo Hen

This is a crime suspense entertainment drama about a fierce battle between the Kyowakai, Japan's largest gang of yakuza, the anonymous, mobile crime group (Tokuryu), which has become a social problem as a group of…